I am marking this as Invalid, as in the latest releases of Ubuntu (Oneiric and
Precise) when closing the Software sources dialog, it does not request
reloading, thus it will not have any problems if there is a lock. I have tried
by opening Synaptic (to create the lock) and software sources from
I can confirm this on Jaunty, Karmic, and Lucid. The important step to
recreation is opening a package manager first (e.g. aptitude or
synaptic), which will take the lock. Then start software sources, which
does not try to take the lock until Reload is pressed. Changing the
source package appropria
Still occurs.
** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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Synaptic should check for lock before asking to update package lists.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/200441
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Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
for you? May you please try the same with Jaunty and comment back?
Thanks in advance.
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